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title: Kubernetes does not need a LoadBalancer nor ingress
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pub_date: 2021-06-09
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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abstract:
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## TL;DR
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You might be running services just fine without a loadbalancer
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in Kubernetes. Using public ClusterIP is very easy, especially with
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IPv6 only clusters.
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## Background
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Typically in loadbalancer
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ingress for public
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## DNS
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## Letsencrypt
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title: Kubernetes without Ingress
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pub_date: 2021-06-09
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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## Introduction
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On our journey to build and define IPv6 only kubernetes clusters we
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came accross some principles that seem awkward in the IPv6 world. Let
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us today have a look at the *LoadBalancer* and *Ingress* concepts.
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## Ingress
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Let's have a look at the [Ingres
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definition](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/)
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definiton from the kubernetes website:
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```
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Ingress exposes HTTP and HTTPS routes from outside the cluster to
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services within the cluster. Traffic routing is controlled by rules
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defined on the Ingress resource.
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```
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So the ingress basically routes from outside to inside. But, in the
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IPv6 world, services can already be publicly reachable, depending on
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your network policy.
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## Services
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Let's have a look at how services in IPv6 only clusters look like:
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```
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% kubectl get svc
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NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
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etherpad ClusterIP 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::a94b <none> 9001/TCP 19h
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nginx-service ClusterIP 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::3607 <none> 80/TCP 43h
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postgres ClusterIP 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::c9e0 <none> 5432/TCP 19h
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...
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```
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All these services are world reachable, so a theorethical ingress does
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actually not do any work. Services are routed to the pods as usual.
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## ServiceTypes
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While we are at looking at the k8s primitives, let's have a closer
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look at the **Service**, specifically at 3 of the **ServiceTypes**
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supported by k8s, including it's definition:
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### ClusterIP
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The k8s website says
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```
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Exposes the Service on a cluster-internal IP. Choosing this value
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makes the Service only reachable from within the cluster. This is the
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default ServiceType.
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```
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So in the context of IPv6, this sounds wrong. There is nothing that
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makes an global IPv6 address be "internal", besides possible network
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policies. The concept is probably coming from the strict difference of
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RFC1918 space usually used in k8s clusters and not public IPv4.
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This difference does not make a lot of sense in the IPv6 world though
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and seeing services as public by default, makes more sense.
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### NodePort
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Let's have a look at the definition first again:
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Exposes the Service on each Node's IP at a static port (the
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NodePort). A ClusterIP Service, to which the NodePort Service routes,
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is automatically created. You'll be able to contact the NodePort
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Service, from outside the cluster, by requesting <NodeIP>:<NodePort>.
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```
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Conceptually this can be similarily utilised in the IPv6 only world
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like it does in the IPv4 world. However given that there are enough
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addresses available with IPv6, this might not be such an interesting
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ServiceType anymore.
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### LoadBalancer
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Before we have a look at this type, let's take some steps back
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first to ...
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## ... Load Balancing
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There are a variety of possibilities to do load balancing. From simple
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round robin, to ECMP based load balancing, to application aware,
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potentially weighted load balancing.
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So for load balancing, there is usually more than one solution and
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there is likely not one size fits all.
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So with this said, let.s have a look at the
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**ServiceType LoadBalancer** definition:
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```
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Exposes the Service externally using a cloud provider's load
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balancer. NodePort and ClusterIP Services, to which the external load
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balancer routes, are automatically created.
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```
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So whatever the cloud provider offers, can be used, and that is a good
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thing. However, let's have a look at how you get load balancing for
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free in IPv6 only clusters:
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## Load Balancing in IPv6 only clusters
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So what is the most easy way of reliable load balancing in network?
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ECMP (equal cost multi path) comes to the mind right away. Given that
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kubernetes nodes can BGP peer with the network (upstream or the
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switches), this basically gives load balancing to the world for free:
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```
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[ The Internet ]
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[ k8s-node-1 ]-----------[ network ]-----------[ k8s-node-n]
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[ ECMP ]
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[ k8s-node-2]
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```
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In the real world on a bird based BGP upstream router
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this looks as follows:
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```
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[18:13:02] red.place7:~# birdc show route
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BIRD 2.0.7 ready.
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Table master6:
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...
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2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::/108 unicast [place7-server1 2021-06-07] * (100) [AS65534i]
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via 2a0a:e5c0:13:0:225:b3ff:fe20:3554 on eth0
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unicast [place7-server4 2021-06-08] (100) [AS65534i]
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via 2a0a:e5c0:13:0:225:b3ff:fe20:3564 on eth0
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unicast [place7-server2 2021-06-07] (100) [AS65534i]
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via 2a0a:e5c0:13:0:225:b3ff:fe20:38cc on eth0
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unicast [place7-server3 2021-06-07] (100) [AS65534i]
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via 2a0a:e5c0:13:0:224:81ff:fee0:db7a on eth0
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...
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```
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## TL;DR
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We know, a TL;DR at the end is not the right thing to do, but hey, we
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are at ungleich, aren't we?
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In a nutshell, with IPv6 the concept of **Ingress**,
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**Service** and the **LoadBalancer** ServiceType
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types need to be revised, as IPv6 allows direct access without having
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to jump through hoops.
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If you are interesting in continuing the discussion,
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we are there for you in
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[the #hacking:ungleich.ch Matrix channel](https://chat.with.ungleich.ch).
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